Glitchy
The app is great because it doesn’t get lag on long docs but it’s so glitchy. You’ll be working in one section of the document, and snap, it just jumps to somewhere else. The search feature is sketchy. It needs some bug fixes.
Great app
This app is brilliant in its appearance and functionality. Primarily, I use it for reading text. Reading text in the default files app is difficult as the font size is too small and there is no way to adjust it. — My only complaint is that despite dismissing the keyboard often leads to unwanted scrolling. If you could add a toggle that would dismiss the keyboard I would be immensely appreciative.
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Great tool.
Simple and easy to use.
Easy to switch between rich-text and plain-text.
Preview in two clicks.
Supports basic markdown.
Word count and character count available from the menu.
Wishlist:
Inbuilt markdown reference guide.
• this should be straightforward to implement, and would lift it to 5-stars •
Easy to switch between rich-text and plain-text.
Preview in two clicks.
Supports basic markdown.
Word count and character count available from the menu.
Wishlist:
Inbuilt markdown reference guide.
• this should be straightforward to implement, and would lift it to 5-stars •
Can’t open/edit rich text created elsewhere
My primary need is an iOS app that can open, view, and edit existing RTFD files in Dropbox and iCloud Drive. This app *cannot* do that. Additional shortcomings: (1) Plain text cannot be converted to rich text; (2) there are no list options—bullets, numbered, dashes, etc.; (3) default text size is huge, 23pt; and (4) there are no tab adjustments—you get what you get. While I understand the app was created to be a simple/basic text editor, its inability to open existing rich text docs—even small ones—makes this no more useful than Dropbox’s built in plain text editor.
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No Zoom, File Creation Metadata WRONG, No Lists
There should be control over the text rendering size on screen, so that font size is maintained but a mobile user doesn’t have to struggle with tiny text. Many text editing apps traditionally call this as a “Zoom” function.
The font sizing also seems to lack any display of the actual point size; there’s just a + & - button *when accessed from the context menu* (the main formatting menu’s interface is fine).
List buttons in formatting do nothing. The developer was told this and they replied that there’s no such feature. Yeah? Then maybe you shouldn’t expose these buttons in the formatting UI when someone selects text, swipes to “Format” and chooses “More…” The controls for bulleted lists are right there and they don’t work at all. This is inconsistent UI design and I’m fairly sure RTF documents support basic lists in the standard.
Worse: all documents created in this app are stamped with a file creation date & time that is 100% WRONG. File metadata matters, folks!
Other reviewers pointed out the same issues and the developer responses were clueless or absent.
Easy editing of RTF on iOS is ridiculously kneecapped by Apple and no developer has managed to fill in for the lack of a TextEdit for iOS as is found on Mac OS.
The font sizing also seems to lack any display of the actual point size; there’s just a + & - button *when accessed from the context menu* (the main formatting menu’s interface is fine).
List buttons in formatting do nothing. The developer was told this and they replied that there’s no such feature. Yeah? Then maybe you shouldn’t expose these buttons in the formatting UI when someone selects text, swipes to “Format” and chooses “More…” The controls for bulleted lists are right there and they don’t work at all. This is inconsistent UI design and I’m fairly sure RTF documents support basic lists in the standard.
Worse: all documents created in this app are stamped with a file creation date & time that is 100% WRONG. File metadata matters, folks!
Other reviewers pointed out the same issues and the developer responses were clueless or absent.
Easy editing of RTF on iOS is ridiculously kneecapped by Apple and no developer has managed to fill in for the lack of a TextEdit for iOS as is found on Mac OS.
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Updated review - great but text flits around while typing again.
It's a text file app that opens and saves in 'files'. (Some don't and therefore require importing and exporting.)
Bonus; it does rtf and html.
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Update: there's an issue of the view jumping up and down a couple of lines as you add or delete spaces. It can be demonstrated in a file longer than the screen height by just picking anywhere within it and pressing space multiple times. It's quite jarring.
This was fixed once but came back after the following update.
Bonus; it does rtf and html.
But
Update: there's an issue of the view jumping up and down a couple of lines as you add or delete spaces. It can be demonstrated in a file longer than the screen height by just picking anywhere within it and pressing space multiple times. It's quite jarring.
This was fixed once but came back after the following update.
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Recommendation
Was using Subtext before but didn’t get auto correct. extext does that and it even allows me to set a serif font, which is really refreshing.
Finally someone gets it.
It's a text file app that opens and saves in 'files'. Just as any text file editor on a pc would do. (Plus the usual 'cloud' options the 'files' exposes.) Any text file, not just it's own proprietary files. Text is what I want. Rich text, HTML, and markdown are bonuses. And.. it all just works. No annoying auto-formatting of links or lists in text files either so it stomps all over the ios Notes app. (No ads, no fuss, no subscription lock-in)
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Update: I find that when 'enter' is used the cursor goes to a new line but the interface scrolls all the way to the bottom of the document. You either have to manually scroll back up or type something blindly, which causes the view to adjust back to the cursor location. Weird. If 'enter' is pressed multiple times the view switches between the cursor location and EOF repeatedly. Something for you to nut out if you could Mark. Cheers.
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Update: odd scrolling on use of 'enter' key fixed within a week. .. but
Update: there's an issue of the view jumping up and down a couple of lines as you add or delete spaces. It can be demonstrated in a file longer than the screen height by just picking anywhere within it and pressing space multiple times. It's quite jarring. Separate I think to previous issue.
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Update: I find that when 'enter' is used the cursor goes to a new line but the interface scrolls all the way to the bottom of the document. You either have to manually scroll back up or type something blindly, which causes the view to adjust back to the cursor location. Weird. If 'enter' is pressed multiple times the view switches between the cursor location and EOF repeatedly. Something for you to nut out if you could Mark. Cheers.
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Update: odd scrolling on use of 'enter' key fixed within a week. .. but
Update: there's an issue of the view jumping up and down a couple of lines as you add or delete spaces. It can be demonstrated in a file longer than the screen height by just picking anywhere within it and pressing space multiple times. It's quite jarring. Separate I think to previous issue.
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One small problem
Loved this app, it’s great, but there’s one bug that ruins it for me. I don’t think it was always like this but after a while of using it I realized that whenever I would create a file, the creation would be an inaccurate date from a long time ago instead of the date I created the file, even though the modified date and access dates were correct. And all the files have that same creation date as if they were all the files were created the same day. So now I have to go back through all of my text files on my computer and fix the metadata myself which is annoying. Hopefully this will get patched and I might start using it again.
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perfekt
genau was ich gesucht habe. Danke!
Хорошо, но не хватает счетчика
Прекрасный легкий блокнот с синхронизацией в iCloud. Но очень уж не хватает счетчика слов/символов/предложений. Ждать ли этой фичи в обновлениях?
A fine editor
I use EZText to edit RTF documents stored in Dropbox and iCloud. It's great - simple and straightforward. Excellent quick support as well.
Only barebones RTF editor on the App Store
I’ve been looking for a simple free equivalent to TextEdit for Rich Text on iOS. This is the only app that does not try to upsell you a subscription or unwanted upgrades. It does what you need to do: modify and create RTF files. Thank you.
Excellent text, RTF, HTML editor. FREE W NO ADS👍
By far, this is the most full featured free text editor on the App Store, IMO, and I have tried just about all of them. It is better than most of the text editors on the App Store that have a cost or subscription. It is completely free, with no ads and no reduced functionality.
EZtext comes in native iPad 👍 and iPhone versions. It shows up in the share sheet and supports iPad multitasking. It is loaded with RTF, HTML, Markdown and more. Perfect for text editing, though it could also be used as a lightweight and fast word processor.
The developer is very responsive, answering a question I had about “replace all.” I use it regularly on an iPhone 16 and an iPad 13”. Works and looks great on a small and large screens.
It’s the kind of app that I would pay for, but I am grateful that it is freely provided. 🙏
EZtext comes in native iPad 👍 and iPhone versions. It shows up in the share sheet and supports iPad multitasking. It is loaded with RTF, HTML, Markdown and more. Perfect for text editing, though it could also be used as a lightweight and fast word processor.
The developer is very responsive, answering a question I had about “replace all.” I use it regularly on an iPhone 16 and an iPad 13”. Works and looks great on a small and large screens.
It’s the kind of app that I would pay for, but I am grateful that it is freely provided. 🙏
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Neat idea, unfinished
This could be a very nice editor, but not all of the functions work, and there are other problems. Lists simply don’t work, they are non-functional. The point size of the text is defaulted to 17pt, and if you set it to 12pt, it becomes tiny. There is no zoom, so there it stays. Even for free, this isn’t worth anything.
In response to the developer: there are literally buttons for lists in the app. And yes, they are non-functional.
As far as point size, if you don’t understand what the problem is, you shouldn’t be attempting to make a text editor.
My expectation is for everything to work. As is, this app is a waste of time, with no value whatsoever.
In response to the developer: there are literally buttons for lists in the app. And yes, they are non-functional.
As far as point size, if you don’t understand what the problem is, you shouldn’t be attempting to make a text editor.
My expectation is for everything to work. As is, this app is a waste of time, with no value whatsoever.
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Neat idea, unfinished
This could be a very nice editor, but not all of the functions work, and there are other problems. Lists simply don’t work, they are non-functional. The point size of the text is defaulted to 17pt, and if you set it to 12pt, it becomes tiny. There is no zoom, so there it stays. Even for free, this isn’t worth anything.
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Response from developer
EZText doesn’t have support for lists. Of course 12pt is a lot smaller than 17pt. I’m not sure what your expectation is.
Eventually found a plain text editor for my iPad!
Looks like it does what it says on the wrapper. Reviews look good and recent.
And FREE! Can I buy you a coffee? Wish we could get a shareware/try before you buy model on the AppStore rather than all these cloud based subscription models.
And FREE! Can I buy you a coffee? Wish we could get a shareware/try before you buy model on the AppStore rather than all these cloud based subscription models.
Excellent text & RTF editor, no ads.
By far, this is the most full featured free text editor, IMO, and I have tried just about all of them. Native iPad and iPhone versions. No ads. It shows up in the share sheet. iPad multitasking. All the right things. It is loaded with RTF features, making it nearly a full featured word processor. It supports markdown, text and paragraph styles. Find and replace supports "replace all."
I use it regularly on an iPhone 16 Pro Max and an iPad 11 inch Pro. It looks terrific on big screens.
The one thing I could not find was line numbers, but I will have to check the settings further. It's definitely a five star plus application!
I use it regularly on an iPhone 16 Pro Max and an iPad 11 inch Pro. It looks terrific on big screens.
The one thing I could not find was line numbers, but I will have to check the settings further. It's definitely a five star plus application!
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Response from developer
Replace All is available, just long-press on the Replace button.
Excellent text & RTF editor, no ads.
Update: the dev reached out to me and informed me that long pressing the "replace" button will bring up "replace all." Sure enough, it does. If I could give six stars, I would.👍
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By far, this is the most full featured free text editor, IMO, and I have tried just about all of them. Native iPad and iPhone versions. No ads. It shows up in the share sheet. iPad multitasking. All the right things. It is loaded with RTF features, making it nearly a full featured word processor. It supports markdown, text and paragraph styles.
Just one thing: it does not have a "replace all" function for the search feature. I see the dev added some new search features, it seems like Replace All would be an obvious option. Hopefully?
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By far, this is the most full featured free text editor, IMO, and I have tried just about all of them. Native iPad and iPhone versions. No ads. It shows up in the share sheet. iPad multitasking. All the right things. It is loaded with RTF features, making it nearly a full featured word processor. It supports markdown, text and paragraph styles.
Just one thing: it does not have a "replace all" function for the search feature. I see the dev added some new search features, it seems like Replace All would be an obvious option. Hopefully?
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Response from developer
Replace All is available, just long-press on the Replace button.
Finally someone gets it.
It's a text file app that opens and saves in 'files'. Just as any text file editor on a pc would do. (Plus the usual 'cloud' options the 'files' exposes.) Any text file, not just it's own proprietary files. Text is what I want. Rich text, HTML, and markdown are bonuses. And.. it all just works. No annoying auto-formatting of links or lists in text files either so it stomps all over the ios Notes app. (No ads, no fuss, no subscription lock-in) Unreal how many tools I downloaded and then deleted because the developers wanted to weird or unique or something.
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Update: I find that when 'enter' is used the cursor goes to a new line but the interface scrolls all the way to the bottom of the document. You either have to manually scroll back up or type something blindly, which causes the view to adjust back to the cursor location. Weird. If 'enter' is pressed multiple times the view switches between the cursor location and EOF repeatedly. Something for you to nut out if you could Mark. Cheers.
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Update: odd scrolling on use of 'enter' key fixed within a week. You can't ask for more than that. Thanks.
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Update: I find that when 'enter' is used the cursor goes to a new line but the interface scrolls all the way to the bottom of the document. You either have to manually scroll back up or type something blindly, which causes the view to adjust back to the cursor location. Weird. If 'enter' is pressed multiple times the view switches between the cursor location and EOF repeatedly. Something for you to nut out if you could Mark. Cheers.
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Update: odd scrolling on use of 'enter' key fixed within a week. You can't ask for more than that. Thanks.
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